FANDOM

Marvel Database
Marvel Database
223,548 Pages
Add new page
in:
Hellions Squad members, Secret Identity, Male Characters,
and 33 more

Brian Cruz (Earth-616)

Edit
Share



Hellions Squad (Earth-616) from New X-Men Vol 2 6 0002

Tag and Icarus

Brian came to Emma Frost’s squad after the rebuilding of the school and joined the Hellions Squad, taking the codename Tag. He never questioned Hellion’s orders, and often eagerly went along with the squad’s plans.

After most of the world's mutants lost their powers during the Decimation, Emma Frost decided it would be best if non-powered students left the school. While some left early, Tag stuck around the mansion as long as possible. After he and several other mutants (including Dryad and Network) said goodbye to their friends, they climbed on a bus out of Xavier's. Unfortunately the bus was destroyed by a missile launched by William Stryker's Purifiers. Tag and the others who were in the bus were killed.

Power Grid [1]
Intelligence
 2
Strength
 2
Speed
 2
Durability
 2
Energy Projection*
 3
 1
Fighting Skills
 2
* Higher energy projection before being depowered

Powers

None, he was a depowered mutant.

Former Powers

Pariah Effect: Tag had a very unusual psionic ability. He was capable of tagging a person making the person become "it." When he touched someone he used a form of telepathy that caused them to emit a psionic signal making them a target for others to run away from or to run toward. He could choose the number of people who would be affected by this strange "tag" game.

Once during a training session he "tagged" Hellion of his squad making the new mutants squad run away from him while leaving his teammates unaffected.

The effect stopped when the victim or victims reached a distance of about 100 feet or so. This "tag" game could also work the other way around making all the people want to run toward the person he "tagged" and crumbling all together on top of the person "tagged".

The person "tagged" wasn't affected by his powers but all the others that he chose were compelled to do so without choice and usually they were fully aware of what was happening but weren't able to control themselves. His powers also worked in other ways like "tagging" a person to run away from himself if he desired him to do so. In this manner he "tagged" a person and the person just started to run away with no control whatsoever and he didn't even know why. When he touched someone he always said "you´re it!".




Discover and Discuss

Footnotes


Like this? Let us know!
Retrieved from "https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Brian_Cruz_(Earth-616)?oldid=3986600"